In an unofficial annoucement from PixeLINK, a new, smaller and "sexier" line of FireWire B cameras will be announced at the 2008 Vision Expo being held in Stuttgart, Germany in November.  While there is very minimal information released about the new line of cameras, the preliminary information that has been revealed is as follows:

The new PL-C series of CCD and CMOS Machine Vision Industrial Cameras is anticipated to include*:

  • New smaller camera size
  • New Black housing to replace the Gray
  • Faster Camera Frame Rate
  • FireWire B
  • New Hirose connector (power over Hirose for GigE)

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Ideal Applications for PixeLINK cameras include:

  • Wood Inspection
  • Biometrics
    • Finger Print Analysis
    • Face Recognition
  • Fraud Inspection
    • Currency
    • Document
    • Product
  • Cell Phone Screen Analysis
  • Wheel Alignment Systems
  • Automated Welding Inspection
  • Optical Disc Inspection
    • CD
    • DVD
    • Blue-Ray
  • Tensile Strength Measurement
  • HighSpeed Rivet Inspection
  • Microfiche Scanning
  • OCR

*Specifications above are preliminary and subject to change without notice.

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